IngolfssonJUDITH VIOLIN www.judithingolfsson.com Judith Ingolfsson, Violin Violinist Judith Ingolfsson made her first appearances on the in- ternational music scene as a prize winner of the celebrated Pre- mio Paganini Competition in Genoa and the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. Winning the Gold Medal at the prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1998 provided her with the final breakthrough as an internatio- nally sought-after soloist. In 1999, National Public Radio's "Per- formance Today" named her "Debut Artist of the Year" for her "remarkable intelligence, musicality, and sense of insight.” The New York Times has since characterized her playing as produ- cing “both fireworks and a singing tone,” the Washington Post praised the “finely honed bowing and stylistic finesse” of her playing, and Strings Magazine described her tone as “gorgeous, intense, and variable, flawlessly pure and beautiful in every regis- ter.” Judith Ingolfsson has concertized throughout North and South America, Asia, and Europe, per- forming as a soloist with such prestigious orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Tokyo, the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jena Philhar- monic, the Philharmonischen Staatsorchester Mainz, the Bollington Festival Orchestra (UK), and the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt-Oder. She had collaborated with conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Raymond Leppard, Gilbert Varga, Jesús López-Cobos, Rico Saccani, Gerard Schwarz, and Leonard Slatkin. She was also heard as soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2000 on its highly acclaimed 15-city North American tour, highlighted by performan- ces at Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. Judith Ingolfsson's recital performances have taken her to many of the world's leading stages in- cluding Konzerthaus Berlin, New York’s Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Cleveland Museum of Art, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Reyjavík Arts Festival, Pro Arte Musicale of Puerto Rico, La Asociación Nacional de Conciertos de Panamá, Macao Cultural Center and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Center. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with the Avalon, Miami and Vogler String Quartets, the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, and has ap- peared as a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two on tour and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. A welcome guest at music festivals, she has been invited to festivals in the USA, Poland, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands. In 2010 she was artist-in-residence in Villa Esche in Chemnitz. Judith Ingolfsson’s current discography includes five CDs. She was the recipient of the 2001 Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award for her debut CD on Catalpa Classics. Her recor- ding of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, available on the BPO Live label, was released in 2007. The CD "En Hommage: Simon Laks" was released on EDA in 2010. In 2011 Judith Ingolfsson released a highly acclaimed recording of the Ysaye Solo Sonatas on the GENUIN label and, together with the pianist Vladimir Stoupel, a CD on the AUDITE label including works of Shostakovich and Stravinsky. www.judithingolfsson.com Born in Reykjavik, Iceland to an Icelandic father and Swiss mother, Judith Ingolfsson began her violin studies at the age of three and gave her first public performance on Icelandic State Television at age five. At the age of eight she recorded as soloist with the Iceland Symphony for Icelandic Sta- te Radio and a few weeks later performed her orchestral solo debut in Germany. Her family immi- grated to the United States in 1980, and at the age of 14, she was admitted to The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Jascha Brodsky. She went on to earn her Master's degree and Artists Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein. Recent and upcoming engagements and projects include Judith Ingolfsson’s special interest in twentieth-century composers. Together with pianist Vladimir Stoupel she performs and records ex- tensively as the Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel. The Duo has four upcoming CD releases planned in 2016 on Accentus Music, including works of Sergei Prokofieff, Gabriel Fauré, Louis Vierne, Alberic Magnard and Rudi Stephan. With the Jena Philharmonic and the Staatsorchester Mainz, she re- cently performed the Violin Concertos by Einojuhani Rautavaara and Nikolai Roslavets. Another upcoming CD release includes the Violin Concerto “The Grasshopper” by Joseph Holbrooke, re- corded with the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt for the CPO label. She is currently Professor at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and co- artistic director and founder of Festival International "Aigues-Vives en Musiques" in France. She performs on a Lorenzo Guadagnini violin, crafted in 1750, and a viola by Yair Hod Fainas. She also uses a baroque bow made by the modern German maker Bastian Muthesius. Contact Judith Ingolfsson Tel: +1 212 923 - 3285 Tel: +49 151 2300 7529 Email: [email protected] Web: www.judithingolfsson.com www.judithingolfsson.com Violin Concerto Repertoire Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Holbrooke Maurice Ravel • Concerto in a BWV 1041 • Concerto “The Grasshopper” • Tzigane (1924) • Concerto in E BWV 1042 • Concerto for two violins in d, Joseph Haydn Camille Saint-Saëns BWV 1043 • Concerto No. 1 in C • Concerto Nr. 3 in b, Op. 61 • Havanaise, Op. 83 Samuel Barber Aaram Khatchaturian • Introduction & Rondo capriccio- • Concerto op. 14 • Concerto in d (1940) so, Op. 28 Bela Bartok Erich Wolfgang Korngold Pablo de Sarasate • Concerto No. 2 (1938) • Concerto in D, Op. 35 (1946) • Carmen Fantasy op. 25 • Zigeunerweisen op. 20 Ludwig van Beethoven Simon Laks • Concerto in D, Op. 61 • Poème for violin and orchestra Alfred Schnittke • Romance No. 1, Op. 40 • Concerto Grosso No. 1 (1977) • Romance No. 2, Op. 50 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy • Triple Concerto in C, Op. 56 • Concerto in e, Op. 64 Robert Schumann • Concerto for Violin, Piano • Concerto in d (WoO23) Alban Berg and Strings • Concerto (1935) Dmitri Shostakovich • Chamber Concerto for Violin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Concerto No. 1, Op. 77 Piano and 13 Winds • Concerto No. 1 in B-flat, K. 207 • Concerto No. 2, Op. 129 • Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211 Johannes Brahms • Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216 Jean Sibelius • Concerto in D, Op. 77 • Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 • Concerto in d, Op. 47 • Double Concerto in a, Op. 102 • Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219 • 6 Humoresques • Rondo in C Major, K. 373 Benjamin Britten • Adagio in E Major, K. 261 Karol Szymanowski • Concerto Op. 15 in d • Sinfonia Concertante for Violin • Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 and Viola in E-flat Major, K. 364 Max Bruch Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Concerto No. 1 in g, Op. 26 Niccolo Paganini • Concerto in D, Op. 35 • Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 • Concerto No. 1 D Major, Op. 6 • Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34 • Concerto No. 2 b minor, Op. 7 • Sérénade Mélancholique, Op. 26 Ernest Chausson • Méditation, Op. 42 • Poème op. 25 Sergei Prokofieff • Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19 Henri Vieuxtemps Antonin Dvorak • Concerto No. 2 in g, Op. 63 • Concerto No. 5 in a, Op. 37 • Concerto in a, Op. 53 • Romance in f, Op. 11 Joachim Raff Antonio Vivaldi • Concerto No. 2 in a, Op. 206 • Four Seasons, Op. 8 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst • Concerto“Pathétique” Op. 23 Einojuhani Rautavaara Henri Wieniawski • Concerto (1977) • Concerto No. 1 in f#, Op. 14 Alexander Glazunov • Concerto No. 2 in d, Op. 22 • Concerto in a, Op. 82 Nikolai Roslavets • Fantaisie brilliante nach • Concerto No. 1 Gounod’s Faust Op. 20 Haflidi Hallgrimsson • Poemi (1984) www.judithingolfsson.com Reviews Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Hamburger Abendblatt A Bohemian Paganini “The violinist from Iceland movingly performed Judith Ingolfsson Shines as Interpreter Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor with a clearly “Born in Bohemia, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst is unknown chiseled and yet languorous sound. Laks’s lost version of to most music lovers, although his contemporaries the “Trois Pieces de concert” for cello and piano she compared the virtuoso and composer to his role model reconstructed for violin and piano. Her playing was Paganini. One of his main works is the Violin Concerto accordingly intense and authentic. The first movement in F-sharp Minor, which is informed not by Paganinian came across dance-like, fanciful, and with subtle humor. “italianitá,” but rather by German Romanticism, displays In the “Romance” her crystal clear playing enthralled a verve that at times is reminiscent of Weber, is with a mournfully beautiful melody, while in the last calculated for great impact, but never at the expense of movement she allowed lots of room for the comical the musical substance. A glance at the solo part shows accents. why it hardly appears on concert programs: it is simply In Ravel’s Sonata for violin and piano, the duo displayed fiendishly difficult and on a par with what the devil’s wonderful unity. Ingolfsson particularly brought out the violinist from Genoa demanded from the instrument. light, lapidary, resigned character of the blues. The For this reason, the achievement of soloist Judith boisterous ballad-like character of the composition Ingolfsson, who provoked thunderous applause with her succeeded so well that it almost seemed like Kurt Weill’s radiant sound and stupendous virtuosity, deserves all the Pirate Jenny was singing. The duo played fabulously.” more praise.” The Monterey County Herald Greenwich Citizen "Ingolfsson possesses artistic fire to be sure, but her Icelandic violinist turns up the heat with GSO playing is not flamboyant nor is it infused with hot “The stunning soloist… for the Violin Concerto of Alban theatrics. Rather she is a performer who projected Berg was Icelandic violinist Judith Ingolfsson.